There are already 15 people dead and more than 20 injured left by the landslide registered in Pereira, which fell on the Otún River, generating a damming of the riverbed, and plugged several houses in the La Esneda neighborhood, located between streets 26 and 27 in the River Avenue.
From the moment the registration emergency Local and departmental authorities, relief agencies, the National Police, the Army and hundreds of citizens have come to the scene who have joined efforts to search for survivors in the rubble.
The search work has become difficult and has had to be suspended on several occasions because the rains do not stop over the Risaraldense capital and this has caused earth movements in the place where the emergency occurred.
TO Pereira In the last few hours, 30 men specializing in search and rescue assistance from the Eighth Brigade of the National Army also arrived, who were located in Manizales in a preventive manner to attend to any situation that the Nevado del Ruiz Volcano could generate.
(You can read: The heartbreaking stories of the survivors of the Pereira tragedy).
So far, five houses have been completely destroyed and another 26 have been evacuated, which has left 32 families victims.
Faced with this situation, the mayor of Pereira, Carlos Mayanannounced that temporary shelters and hotels will be adapted, in addition to food supplies, for these affected people.
From the National Disaster Risk Management Unit they announced the deployment of aid for the people affected by this tragedy, which consist of accommodation in hotels, humanitarian aidfood rations and, in the long term, a relocation process.
According to the preliminary report of the UNGRD, this landslide was caused by the “anthropic intervention of a canal in the upper part that was intentionally perforated and generated an oversaturation of the land helped by the rainfall that occurred in Pereira that was around of the 93 mm of rain, that is what it rains in Pereira in a normal condition in 15 days”.
(You can read: Tragedy in Pereira: how and where to help those affected by the collapse).
Meanwhile, the Pereira authorities advance the identification of the people deceased because of this massive landslide:
Silvana Suarez Buitrago, 6 years old
Mariana Ochoa, 13 years old
Medardo Antonio Ochoa, 40 years old
Doralba Idárraga Ocampo, 40 years old
Ernesto Franco Toro, 55 years old
Natalia Ayala Gutierrez, 23 years old
Cesar Augusto Alzate Gaspar, 55 years old
David de Jesus Alzate Grisales, 80 years old
Kelly Dahiana Lopez, 15 years old
Ednuar Eduardo Porras, 67 years old
Humberto Quintero Toro
Gloria Inés Gómez, approximately 54 years old
Cástulo de Jesús Chiquito, approximately 59 years old
Andres Felipe Giraldo Gomez, 28 years old
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